Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-11-04
NEWS md NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Sleeves are undergoing a change.

Dark green felt hats are in favor.
Plush is revived in fashionable favor.
The short visite or mantle is the wrap
for full dress.
Silver, gold and steel braids appear on
dressy jackets.
Coat sleeves are q matter of course on
tailor-made suits.
All house dresses have fancy sleeves Of
one kind or another.
Silver braid on silver gray cloth makes
beautiful trimming.
Jackets are worn by young women,
raglans by older ones.
All sorts of fancy colored borders APP
pear on new handkerchicfs.
Long redingotes, with capes, are next
to raglans in fashionable favor.
New redingotes reach to within an
inch of the bottom of the skirt.
There isa threatened change from high
coitfures to moderately low ones.
All frocks, unless tailor-cut aud made,
have full draperies on the bodice.
The coat sleeve is not the universal
favorite now that it has been in the past.
Miss Laura Minkle, blind woman, is
preaching temperance sermons in Iowa.
Mary Walker, of Kentucky, hanged
herself because she found few gray hairs
in her head.
There are 10000 milliners in New
York and Brooklyn, or about one bonnet
maker to every fifty women.
Plaids of Scotch wear are in the most
harmonious colorings; the tints are neutral
and blend in charming way.
The fashion of wearing two kinds OF
braid on the same garment is not only
new this season but it is also pretty.
Queen Christina, of Spain, is not
pretty, her face being too heavy and in
expressive, but she has goodness and
tact.
Printed lawns are used for handker.
chiefs, and when border is embroidered
on to them they are very pretty for young
ladies.
Miss Nellie King is the crack detective
of Minneapolis. She is only 20 years
old, but she has achieved distinction as a
thief-taker.
Since the outer garment has become so
elaborate and beautiful the walking
dress has become less conspicuous in its
trimming.
Miss Rose Streater, of Midway, Ala,
is said to be the belle of the New South.
She is brunette, and at a distance greatly
resembles Mrs. Cleveland.
Miss F. II. Muller, of London, mem.
Der of the London School Board, says the
United States is certainly the earthly
paradise of the gentler sex.
A present style consists in wearing
four gold wire rings on the same finger,
each being set with a single small stone,
as a sapphire, emerald and ruby.
The long waved Astrakhan fur so much
used for jackets quarter of century
ago, is in favor again for the same pur-
pose, but it has been rechristened
"Caracal."
The woman lawyer of Topeka, Mrs. LIE
Greer, is reported to be growing in elo-
quence as a pleader, and tears dim the
eyes of Court and jury when she brings
pathos to her assistance.
Plain plush wraps are to be exception
ally popular They will be trimmed with
fiat beaded trimming and with rich orna-
ments at the front of the collar on the
sleeves, and at the lower ends of the
fronts.
Natty little Engligh coats and Hun.
garian jackets will be worn extensively
with tailor-made suits. They are trimmed
with gimps in scroll, wheel and
arabesque patterns, and are very stylish
and serviceable.
Observant persons must have noted the
decided tendency for some time past
toward simplicity in children's costumes.
Sensible people will rejoice to know that
elaborate dressing of the little ones is not
considered good form.
Miss Lucy Bauman is one of the rich.
est young women in California. She re-
sides in San Francisco and owns no less
than %, 600 acres of land in the interior
counties, not TO mention big block of
stock in line of coast steamers
A new sash is of ribbon, about fom
inches wide, which is first passed tightly
around the waist to the back, then
brought forward again and tied in long
loops and ends on the left of the front,
about five inches below the waist line.
Pretty antique watches are now worn
by ladies. To the ring of the watch a
cluster knot of black MORE ribbon is tied,
and the timepiece is thus thrust into the
corsage, leaving only the ribbon dis
closed as sort of dress decoration. This
allows one to wear watch on all occa-
sions.
There are about 800 students at We'll
lesley college, and they do its homework.
Every girl is trained to do one kind of
work and to do it quickly and we'll.
Forty-fve minutes out of the twenty four
hours is allowed. Cooperation performs
wonders.
All the changes having been rung on
basques, bodices and jackets, polonaises
will receive large share this winter, and
the soft camels' -hair goods, meltons and
suitings of various kinds will be utilized
for the long stately redingotes to be worn
over striped, plaided or plain velvet
skirts.
Girdles are prettily made of thick
silken ropes twisted together, links of
silk cord or strands of large black or
colored beads. These are no longer re-
served for wrappers, but appear on full
dress and walking costumes, with long
tasses or ornaments on the ends hanging
to one side.
Fashion is about to revive the gemmel
ring, which came in about the beginning
of Queen EliAabeth's reign. 1t consisted
of two divided hoops of slender round